Kriol is a minority language, which means it lacks the prestige and visibility of ‘majority’ world languages such as English, Italian and Arabic. Minority languages are often invisible, spoken at home and in informal contexts but may not feature in other areas like media, education, business and the arts. Here at Meigim Kriol Strongbala, we …
Artist and writer Chips Mackinolty with help from the Northern Land Council and AMSANT has produced a series of posters with health messages to limit the spread of Coronavirus/Covid-19. We were approached to translate the posters into Kriol and here are the results: If you would like high-resolutions copies of these files to print yourself …
Mothers, staff and the little ones at Ngukurr FaFT (Families as First Teachers) have continued doing great work with Meigim Kriol Strongbala this year. Last year, they were busy translating books into Kriol and even performed the Kriol version of The Very Cranky Bear for the NT Minister for Education, Selena Uibo. This year, Ngukurr …
With the Coronavirus situation getting more critical, having information available in Kriol is vital to ensure that clear and current information reaches everybody, including Kriol-speaking communities. We have found a few sources of information in Kriol and we recommend listening to them or reading them and sharing them with other Kriol speakers where you …
Coronavirus information in Kriol (updated April 13) Read More »
At Ngukurr School, the Meigim Kriol Strongbala program has been regularly visiting a class made up of a boisterous and adorable bunch of 7 and 8 year olds. Part of their weekly Kriol lesson is to sing songs in Kriol. Last term the students were learning different nursery rhymes in English and their teacher thought …
When we started the Meigim Kriol Strongbala project earlier this year, one of our main goals was to create more education and literacy resources for Kriol. Without high-quality resources, Kriol struggles to be seen as a legitimate language of education. And so this week we are incredibly pleased to announce that our fresh and fancy-looking …
This maybe a world-first: a Kriol movie review! Dawson Daniels has been practising writing Kriol and just for fun wrote a synopsis and review of the 2005 movie Monster-in-law, starring Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda. Check it out: Sandei taim aibin jidan langa kemp lugunat mubi. Det mubi im kol Monsta-in-lo. Aibin laigim det …
This week we took to the streets of Ngukurr to ask residents what they think of the newest shop in the community – the Panda Shop – which opened in 2018. Here’s what they had to say: “Im diyawan” (It’s expensive) “Prais im tu hai” (Prices are too …
Word on the Street (in Ngukurr) – What do you think of the Panda Shop? Read More »
This week we took to the streets to ask people in Ngukurr: What did you think of the AFL Grand Final? “Lilbit boring nomo bin eni fan.” (A bit boring, wasn’t any fun). “Lilbit boring.” (A bit boring). “Aibin gudbinji dumaji main tim bin …
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